Modern America Vocab Quiz Review

Terrorism

• Use of violence by groups against civilians to achieve a political goal

• Dependence on foreign oil

• Foreign policy

• The effects of global climate change

The Middle East

• A region in the U.S. including states such as Wisconsin

• A region in Europe

• A region in Western Asia that the U.S. has been heavily involved in

• A part of China where many factories are located

Foreign policy

• How a country deals with foreign countries

• Trading between regions

• How a government collects taxes

• Restrictions on immigration

Conservation of resources

• Using as many of Earth's resources as possible

• Selling resources to other nations

• Saving valuable resources to have enough for the future

• Sending American jobs to other countries

Imported oil

• Oil brought into the U.S. from other countries

• Renewable energy

• Interedependence

• An outbreak of an infectious disease

Globalization

• Less connection between countries

• Electronic communications

• Increased production in the U.S.

• Increased connections between nations because of trade, technology, and communication

Interdependence

• When nations are more self-reliant

• When nations are mutually dependent on one another

• Renewable energy

• Global climate change

Integration

• A decrease in global trade

• Less immigration

• Less electronic communication between countries

• Brining countries into closer relationships with one another

Telecommunications

• Things sent through the mail

• Globalization

• Any form of electronic communication like the Internet

• Global travel

Outsourcing

• Bringing new products into the U.S.

• Investing in new technologies

• Sending American jobs to other countries

• Building more trains to decrease car traffic